A little help for a guy I'm proud to call my friend.
Please share Simon's story with your networks. We're almost halfway to the fundraising goal!
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Dear @MarcGarneau: just because the "label" of Israeli apartheid makes you uncomfortable, it doesn't give you licence to be complicit. Read the reports from human rights orgs. Listen to Palestinians. Get on the right side of history. #Courage2FightApartheid
You can make a difference today! Tell your MP to vote yes in Parliament this afternoon to end the federal government’s litigation against Residential School Survivors and this generation of First Nations children.
1/ On this day In 2018:
Unarmed Palestinian nurse Razan Al-Najjar, wearing a luminous yellow vest was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while tending to a wounded demonstrator. Razan was reportedly shot in the chest.
Urgently needed is a clear-eyed, open, honest, participatory, and deliberative public discussion across this planet on how structures of oppressive governmental rule are built and maintained with and through mainstream media institutions - via @AyyashMark https://t.co/VyUEZcsFB2
Many people will turn George Floyd into a martyr today. We must fight to remember that he did not *give* his life for justice, for our movement, for an uprising. He wanted to live. He fought to live.
"Palestinian resistance is not just the story of Palestinians and Palestine, but the story of all those who are dominated, colonized, enslaved, oppressed—who are being crushed like rubble under the weight of the world of empire." via @AyyashMark
“From the very first years of childhood, Palestinians in Gaza receive a clear message from Israel and indeed from the world: you are not human, and we do not care.” https://t.co/Tn4Wt9tZXb
Thank you to everyone who is boycotting consumer goods from Israeli and international companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights.
By focusing on a small number of companies we can maximize our impact.
Find out what to boycott here: https://t.co/ZklEchAYlh
Fact: there are more urgent matters than COVID19 before us and time is running out for our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Read @AyyashMark piece to learn more.
#FreePalestine
https://t.co/typcoH2IRB via @AJEnglish
Most people today believe they would've stood for desegregation in US or anti-apartheid in South Africa.
Most in fact would not have. Most didn't when it was hard.
Do you want your future self to say, I stood for decolonisation in Palestine-Israel when it was hard to do so?
"The non-positionality of the statement, “it is complex and controversial”, is far from neutral. This statement indeed maintains the status quo by ensuring the continued toxification of Palestine and Palestinians in Euro-American public discourse."
#Fear
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